is specifically of sequestration, and that's fine, but every department, not just the defense department, every department should be informing the public, informing congress, what the effect would be of sequestration would be ofn should it happen. i'm all for require the defense department to do that. i joined in the language in the defense bill, an amendment on pending legislation to try to do that and if so, it ought to apply to every department and impact on education and on health care and on other important programs as well as defense. >> the impact on private industry? >> of sequestration? >> weight of sequestration. >> there's been so much written many by you of the paralysis that one sees on the industry side. i don't know how many hundreds of billions or trillion dollars of cash on corporate balance sheets and the reality is that corporations aren't going to invest this capital until they can get some sense as to environment that they are investing into. this continued turmoil and uncertainty continues the paralysis. and if we're really looking for private sector investment to h

the defense department. it was only three or four months later that joe went over and became i think the domestic czar, crisis czar and that sort of thing for johnson. >> scott, long before you will go to washington or get involved in washington business, you had a long-time friend who would influence a lot of your life and you probably some of his life. would you describe to this group who that person is and what that influence was? >> well, two years ahead of me in wheaton, illinois, was a fell load named bob woodward. i was from the other side of the fraction from bob and wasn't really focused on college. bob got me interested in the ivy league and encouraged me to come to yale where he had gone. i got married when i was 17 years old. he helped me make the transition because i lived off campus at yale. later as bob was in the military, i used to come to washington for anti-war marches. he was work manage the pentagon and i would stay with him. it was an irony. >> we don't have a picture of scott in that e

i am all in favor of requiring the defense department to do that. maybe an amendment on the pending legislation to try to do that. so, it ought to apply to every department an impact on education and health care and other important programs as well. >> the impact on private industry? >> of sequestration? there has been so much written by many of you about the paralysis that we see on the industry side. i don't know how many hundreds of billions are trillion dollars of cash on corporate balance sheets, and the reality is that corporations are not going to invest in capital until they get some sense as to the environment they are investing in two. this continued turmoil and uncertainty continues the paralysis. if we are really looking for private sector investment to have a major role in bringing our economy back, we need to create an environment where business can at least understand the environment in which it is expected to do business, and therefore be willing to invest. all of what senator lebanon's talking about is just another color of continued

i'd be the last one to say that we can't find those savings in the defense department budget. we can't. and that's what we did. but the goal is not simply to whack away at it without tieing it to a strategy about what kind of defense system do we need for the future in order to protect the country. as long as we can tie it to this strategy, as long as we can make sense out of how we achieve these savings, then we can achieve, as i said, the $500 billion in savings that we've been asked to do by the congress. and we can achieve and be more efficient in the future. but don't think that defense alone is going to solve the bigger problem that you are facing in this congress and in the country. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. secretary. welcome back. i have two kind of disparate issues i wanted to cover with you. last november we had a short conversation about what i was hoping to be perhaps the next step in breaking down the discrimination against people with disabilities in our country. and that was allowing people with disabilities to serve in our armed forces. we had a

however, over the next decade the budget control act sets for the department of defense, $4,807,000,000,000 less than what the department plans to spend. in order to red meat the new fiscal realities you have produced a defense strategy. moves from having a capability to fight two major theater boris , defeating a major adversary in one theater while denying aggression or applying unacceptable cts on the aggressor. in addition, the troops, military focus with increased focus on the pacific and middle east region's. furthermore, the department institutionalized abilities to deal with what were once considered nontraditional or asymmetric threats such as increasing counter-terrorism capacity and answering cyber operations and encountering anti excess that's. most importantly, this tragedy rakers in administrations abroad and maintaining the residents of this force is a vital component of our national security. the defense strategy has not, however, taken into consideration another component of the budget control act known as sequestration. as you know, beginning on january 2nd, 2013, if the d

defense. it truly has been an honor for me to lead the men and women of this department. and to do so during a very historic time for the united states military and for the country. i have been very fortunate to have an outstanding partner in the chairman, the vice chairman, all of the chiefs and the service secretaries and the combatant commanders and all my civilian leadership. let me, if i can, recognize some of the highlights of the past year. thanks to the leadership of the president, the iraq war ended with the safe return of united states troops. we began a responsible draw down of u.s. military forces in afghanistan and we're making a transition to afghan security lead, which is ongoing. we concluded the nato mission in libya with the fall of gadhafi. we have maintained a relentless focus on decimating al qaeda's leadership. we developed a new defense strategy, which reshapes the force to meet the challenges of the 21st century. with a focus on investing in new capabilities and rebalancing towards asia-pacific and the middle east. we have put forward a budget that

department. his own chairman saying we've got to cut the defense budget to cut down the net. the first year, he said we're going to save a hundred billion over five years. everything from closing bases to cutting the officer's demands, whatever. you name it: it continued into 2012, as well. unclear what it meant, just that they had a bogey they had to reach that's not going to change. but none the less, you see the drills that have been under way now. and here we are. so, today, we're going to cut the, you know, 30 major programs left. okay. that's great. then what? it's going to take a whole enterprise-wide effort. and it sounds so easy to say, you know, at the think tank, but it's generally true. and it's going to have to start next year because you're going to need a secretary of either political party who's got time to do this. to learn up, to figure out how to tackle it all at once. the kinds of things like acquisition reform on the services side that get zero attention and peeter is a hundred percent correct. the dod civilian work force is exceptionally large and entire

defense budget as you said. so i don't know how you shrink them and maintain a ready and capable force. so my question is, does the department of defense stick with its early strategies to decrease dependent on the guard and reserve or is there an alternative. the air force budget does not appear to follow that idea. secretary panetta? >> senator, you know, again, what the air force was asked to do was based on the new strategy. try to develop an approach that provided a kind of multimission support for the force and, as a result of that, made decisions with regards to some areas that could be reduced in order to achieve, obviously, the savings that we were required to achieve. i recognize, you know, the controversy involved here because it impacts on constituencies. it impacts on the guard. >> i'm afraid it impacts the readiness, too. that's my biggest concern. >> yeah, i understand that. but, you know, obviously we don't want to take it out of the active force because that is a force that's there ready to deploy quickly. what i've suggested is to try to see if there's a way that we can work to provide some restorations. i

as part of this effort, the department of defense and department of veterans affairs are working together to build a data repository that will help us better analyze suicides and suicide attempts, and do what we can to spot trends and to get ahead of that. likewise, we are improving program evaluation so that we can better focus our resources on those programs that are proven to be effective. the department is also working to fundamentally transform the nation's ability to understand and treat traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. the signature unseen wounds, the last decade of war. earlier this month, the department and the intrepid fallen heroes fund announced a plan to construct state of the art treatment centers for brain injuries, psychological disorders, at nine of our largest installations in the country. i am delighted that we were able to break ground on the first two of these centers at fort bellevar and camp lejeune. these centers, these centers made possible by the generosity of private citizens, god bless them for their generosity and what they do. because of thei

at the same time, the world is changing rapidly and the department of defense is being called upon to respond to threats ranging from cyberspace to weapons proliferation, rising powers, instability in key regions such as we have witnessed with arab spring, d.o.d.'s fiscal year 2013 budget request totals $604.5 billion and this, the subcommittee oversees. this is a decrease of $28.8 billion over last year's enacted budget, mainly due to the draw-down of operations in afghanistan and iraq. however, over the next decade, the budget control act sets limits for d.o.d., which is $487 billion less than what the department planned to spend. in order to meet the new fiscal realities, you have produced defense strategy to help guide this budget reduction. the structure moves from having a capability to fight two major theater wars to defeating a major adversary in one theater while denying aggression or applying unacceptable costs on the other aggressor. in addition, it shifts the military focus to increased emphasis on the pacific and middle east regions. furthermore, it commits the department

known does this as well as the defense department. he said, you know, i only got to deal with three things, people, telephone and buildings. and i have a hard time coordinating and laying that out. it's a complicated thing. we have to recognize that the objective is long-term objective. it's going to be an informed decision on both side of the equation. we have to move without penal e penalizing ourselves severely in the long term. if we are forcing them to have to reconsider, renegotiate, reevaluate 40,000 contracts, the only thing that will come out of this is positive employment for at least one generation of lawyers. talking to dino alvarez a while ago, the a-12 story that has gone on for the better part of 20 years should be somewhat constructive. >> all right. there's been so much positive news from the panel. i want to open it up to the floor here for questions. i think we have a question right here. >> thinking about the long-term object objective is there something that would be in terms of moving beyond the structure, someth

defense department says it will proceed with plans to deploy its os spray aircraft in okinawa. the u.s. military is planning test flights in late july at its iwakuni base in yamaguchi prefecture western japan. it will then move the craft to the futenma marine station. local objections to the plan increased after two osprey crashes in three months, one crashed in morocco in april, killing two soldiers, another went down in the u.s. this month. u.s. department defense department personnel last week briefed japanese officials on their investigation into the crashes. they reportedly said the aircraft passed all safety checks. >>> people in japan's southernmost prefecture have been remembering one of the bloodiest chapters in their history. the battle of okinawa ended on june 23rd, 67 years ago. an annual memorial service took place on saturday. the war left lasting scars on the island. a look back at history shows us why. >> april 1945. u.s. forces land on the main island of okinawa. they have the advantage in troop numbers and fire power, but the japanese army puts up fierce resis

defense bill. there may be an amendment on the pending legislation to try to do that. if so, it ought to apply to every department, the impact on education and health care and other important programs as well as defense. >> the impact on private industry? >> ? of > >> trying to avoid sequestration -- of waiting to avoid sequestration. >> there's paralysis on the industry side. there's i don't know how many trillions of dollars of cash on corporate balance sheets there is. corporations will not invest their capital until they can get some sense of the environment they are investing into. and so, this continued turmoil and uncertainty continues the paralysis. if we are looking for private- sector investment to have a major role in bringing our economy back, we need to create an environment where business can at least understand the environment in which it is expected to do business and, therefore, be willing to invest. all of what senator levin is talking about is just another color on this continued confusion and uncertainty which has business standing on the sidelines waiting to see what will happen. to expect bu

they have yet to defense. >> the department of defense has classified this, the shooting at fort hood, as a workplace violence. do you agree with that? >> no. i think it's -- i mean, almost a disgrace, i mean, it's disgusting. >> to equate terrorism with workplace violence means that you are not confronting the problem. >> sunny san diego, this city has been a hot bed of terrorist activity in the united states for well over a decade. san diego would become a key link in the case of major nidal hassan and the fort hood massacre. fox news has reported extensively on the al qaeda cell that formed here in january of 2000. two 9/11 hijackers settled here and began flight training. they attended the small mosque in the neighborhood of el cajon to receive spiritual advice from anwar al-awlaki. since the late 90s, anwar al-awlaki had been the subject of investigations, ranging from prostitution to terrorism. a u.s. official confirmed that in 2006, he was at least once part of the top-secret president's daily brief or pdb. in san diego, he was tracked by the jttf. >> that's the joint terrorism

this is a joint department of defense and the va program that covers all of the services. i wanted to ask you why the department has not taken the lead in evaluating and making improvements to the entire system. >> senator, i have asked the other service chiefs to implement the same approach that the army is taking. >> to go back to 2001 and review all cases? >> that is correct. >> so they are all following that and we will be told the progress of that. who is heading that up? >> bair undersecretary for -- our under secretary for personnel and health care. that is the individual that you need to contact. >> i would very much like to be kept informed, as i am sure all of our members of congress would. this needs to be transparent and clear. we need to make sure people are accessing the system. the only way to do that is to be clear and open with everyone. i would like more information to be given on that as soon as possible about how that is taking place and what the timetable is and how that will occur. >> i appreciate your leadership on this, senator. i am not satisfied ei

the department of defense has been involved in a program of suffering small businesses in afghanistan. there is an eye of them labor law -- and afghan labor law against using child labor. we have said you work with the department of labor to use an ngo in terms of monitoring this and setting up an inspection system to make sure no u.s. taxpayer dollars are used to support the businesses with children and the worst forms of child labor. we have had some progress. we are not setting up a mandatory verification system, and that bothers me curio -- that bothers me. i know it is a small thing. you have got a lot on your plate. this is an area where we can do a lot to support industry in afghanistan, and i would ask you to look up the contracts we have. >> i know we are aware of concerns. >> they did do some delay trying to appropriate safeguards on child labor. >> there is an afghan law. they are aware of the concerns, and i think they have made steps in the right direction, but we will make sure we are doing all we can. >> we know what needs to be done in terms of verification. >> nino wh

i'm particularly pleased that this conference is run jointly by the department of defense and the department of veterans affairs. building a stronger collaboration between our two departments is absolutely essential. it's essential to meeting the needs of our service members and veterans, and i am proud of the strong working relationship that i built with secretary shinseki and i agree with what he told this audience on wednesday, that our two departments are now working more closely together than ever before. it's essential and important that we build that kind of partnership if we're going to address issues like suicide. this issue, suicide, is perhaps the most frustrating challenge that i've come across since becoming secretary of defense last year. despite the increased efforts, the increased attention, the trends continue to move in a troubling and tragic direction. all of us gathered here share a very deep concern about this issue and about the trends that we are seeing. we also share a commitment to take action, to do everything possible to prevent these horrible tragedies and to supp

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there is a very strange dita disconnect and the department of defense doesn't alert the mayor or the local da. nothing like that. a group of people are coming back to a community. it thwarts the effort. >> we know the da has not always communicated with community groups either. >> there questions of privacy. as i would think, the easiest thing to do is with the dod and the va knows who is coming home and it's hard to require them to go out and find these folks and ask them if you have problems and you think you need help with it. i have never seen the inside of a da medical center. so i identify as a veteran. veterans often times stand on their own. it's hard for them to ask for help a lot of times. they do identify. i think it would be proper attic to say to the da everybody who comes out of the department of defense, you have to track down and make the following. we hear them take a bad knock because they say our doors are open. some feel it's not enough. that's what it's about. trying to find veterans in the public assistance arena. i don't know that there is an easy answer. prope

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we're not very good at this in the department of defense. only 8% of the department of defense speaks a second language, for example. i've chosen to put here the rosetta stone. we are working hard on this. we want to increase our ability to understand and to be able to communicate both directly and also to understand the culture, the history, the literature, all of the salient aspects of the cultures. because if we can do that, then we can far more effectively support you in your work. next, please. we're also doing some fairly creative things as we work with local security forces. now, these are afghan soldiers. and you should look at this photograph and you should say, well, that's an odd photo. because they're all holding books. and if you know anything about afghanistan, you know that, sadly, the literacy rate in this demographic, 20 to 30, is very low. it's only about 15% to 20%. because the taliban withheld education throughout this demographic's opportunity to learn. so you should say, so why are afghan soldiers all holding books? and

as part of this effort, the department of defense and the department of veterans affairs are working to build a analysis of suicides and suicide attempts to spot trends and get ahead of that. likewise, we are improving program in violation so we can better focus our resources on those programs that are proven to be affected. the department is also working to fundamentally transform a nation's ability to understand and treat traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress. the signature unseen wounds of the last decade of war. earlier this month, the department and the sbred fallen heroes fund announced the plan to construct state-of-the-art treatment centers for brain injuries, psychological disorders at nine of our largest installations in the country. i am delighted that we were able to break ground on the first two of the centers fort belvoir and camp lejeune. the centers were made possible by the generosity of private citizens. god bless them for their generosity and what they do. because of their generosity this will help complement national interest for it center in bethesda an

double most double to over eleven billion you know the next decade in two thousand and one the defense department had ninety drones just eleven years later he has an arsenal of more than nine thousand five hundred remotely piloted aircraft with the wars winding down overseas most of those unmanned aircraft will be used to messick liefer surveillance and disaster assistance raising safety and privacy concerns why do you need drones against your citizens that's a military weaponry your police department is not your military and we've lost that distinction there they're the weapons manufacturers and weapons manufacturers know that we need war in order to be profitable so they buy congress defense and aerospace firms which build dry. i've spent millions of dollars on lobbying over the past year those efforts have helped them secure government contracts but lobbyists are also having a very heavy influence on the legislation and regulation over these unmanned vehicles but that's sort of the way it works here and they're the ones who know it best and know what they want written into the legislation and

shortly to see that all aspects of sequestration -- it calls for an amendment not only to the defense department, but the painful cuts to education and food safety and many of the programs that middle-class families and the most vulnerable americans depend on. i think this is a strong sign that both sides understand the pain that sequestration would inflation. both sides agree it is a terrible way to cut spending. my hope is that it will show both sides that we can and must work together to reach a bipartisan deal required to replace the automatic cuts responsibly and fairly. but where there are glimmers of hope and clear signs of bipartisanship here in the senate, there is this more of the same in the house. in fact, instead of working on passing a transportation jobs that passed the senate, or taking a bipartisan legislation to protect vulnerable women, or working with us to signify support on the job creating a farm bill, the house republicans went with none of the above. instead, they decided to create a partisan political theater. house republicans are retreating even further into their cor

i'm not someone who says that we shouldn't cut anything from our department of defense. but we have to put into perspective where we are with our department of defense right now because in addition to this issue of sequestration, the president's proposed 2013 budget that is come forward has already been taken up by the senate armed services committee and the house committee as well in terms of the authorizing committees. that will be a cut of $487 billion of spending reductions over the next ten years. and there are some pretty tough choices in those initial spending reductions. but our defense leaders and secretary panetta have testified before the senate armed services committee about the choices made in those reductions and they're difficult but doable. what we're here talks about today is an additional 500 to $600 billion in across the board fashion that will come in january of this -- 2013 because of the supercommittee's failure to come up with savings. it hits both defense and nondefense. my focus today will be on the defense end. that additional $500 billion, gets

welcome to the department of defense lesbian, gay and transgender national event. please stand and remain standing for the national anthem. ♪ ♪ >> please be seated. please direct your attention to the center screen for the president's lgbt pride month video message followed by secretary panetta's pride month message. >> i've often said that the true genius of america is that america can change. we can pass laws to write wrongs. we can soften hardened attitudes. our union can be made more perfect. change never happens on its own. change happens before ordinary people, countless unsung heroes of our american story stand up and demand it. the story of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender american is no different. we remember the activists and advocates who refuse to be treated like second class citizens. people who marched and protested and believed in a better future. we also remember the unsung heroes t heroes, the millions of americans for every day acts require extraordinary courage. the young people who came out as gay or transgender to their parents not knowin

his defense department defense defense department is saying that the jerry sandusky family is devastated. back to you. >> thank you. and jerry sandusky's defense team plans to appeal the verdict. >>> an suv smashes into a maryland home, sending several children to the hospital. it happened last night in prince georges county. five children and two adults were in the vehicle when it hit the home. the children's condition range from serious to critical this morning. no word on what caused the accident or if anyone will face charges. >>> any roundal county man accused of impersonating a police officer picks the wrung person. she behind bars this morning. he was caught red handed when he tried to pullover a real off- duty officer in prince georges county. his pickup truck was equipped with police lights and he identified himself as a military officer from louisiana. then he tried to runaway and he was caught sometime later. >>> a fight over religious freedom is brewing in the catholic church here in baltimore and the nation. the church is getting ready to take on the obama administration ove

and it is significant that it is changing and it is significant that the department of defense, the department of veteran affairs, are no longer closed systems. and, in fact, those systems have, i think, appropriately acknowledged that there may be people in the community and we need to work together to make sure that we are reaching out together with communities, and that means talking to the civilian population and the civilian providers, and the civilians have to feel the same way. that they can have conversations with the military treatment facility providers with the va, and that whole dialogue, i think, is emblematic of a new way of thinking, and i think it's extremely important and very, very favorable for the behavioral health world to understand that. and dr. karlin, let's talk about utopia. people would have memorandums of understanding, they work together, but in reality, if that system wasn't yet perfected, do families need to know they need to be persistent? family members are so key to everything we're talking about because, oftentimes, it's the family member that is the first an

johnson general council for the department of defense. >> thank you all very much. can everybody hear me in the back? i look around this standing room only crowd, and i'm sorry we didn't sell tickets. thank you for being here. this afternoon i want to share with you some insights on the process that led to the repeal of the don't ask, don't tell law in december 2010. the implementation of that repeal between december 2010 and now, and where i think we're going from here. as recently as three years ago, it would have be hard for many of us, including me, to believe that in the year 2012, a gay man or woman in the armed forces would be honest about their sexual orientation. the don't ask, don't tell law would be gone from the books and that the process of repeal would have gone even smoother and lez less eventful than general ham and i presented in our report. it's a remarkable story. it's remarkable because of the strength of the u.s. military and its leadership. this is the overall message i hope to convey in these remarks. we have the mightiest military in fact wor

department of defense and homeland security as well as the intelligence community, are facing tough decisions, as they seek to balance national security needs with budget realities. today's panel of government, private sector and military experts will discuss evolving and unpredictable press, how the defense industry can build more capable, agile systems for less, and how the nation can balance budget requirements while ensuring national security. before we get to our guests' opening remarks, there will be time for questions and answers it is a national press club tradition to give priority during the question and answer session to working journalists, so i ask that you allow those with deadlines to go first. if you would, please, identify yourself by both name and organization. joining us today, representing his private sector perspective, is david langstaff, president and ceo of task. with reflections from his military perspective, general james cartwright, retired vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. welcome. and with some thoughts from the government point of view, senator carl lev

there might be a place for government investment, but should come out of the defense department. that is where the internet was first funded. but the companies that people who built company did it in the private sector. i agree about the execution . you are giving money to obama administration donors who know know nothing about the. >> hold on. rick, people argue about the coal is subsidized . they have been some what in the past by tax breaks. we know that they produce energy efficiently and they are profitable way of creating energy. we don't know that about solar or wind . there seems to be to the contrary. you can say that about any future technology investment. >> that's balony, rick. >> we do know that the price of solar is down 70 percent. it is going in the right direction. >> the fact is, in the case of wind. we have a four billion dollar program rather than creating jobs, we saw them shrink from 7200 to 300. there is a lot of evidence that they are not efficient. >> they are not efficient . rick is contradicting himself. if the rest of the world is subsidizing what is n

defense. it truly has been an honor to lead the men and women of this department. to do so during a historic time with the united states military and country. my have been fortunate to have an outstanding partner and civilian leadership. i will recognize the past highlights. four the co an outstanding partr with the chairmen, vice chairman, achieves, secretar ies and combatant commanders and civilian leadership. i will recognize the past highlights. four the commanders in the field the iraq war ended with a safe return of the united states troops. we began a drive down nine remaking a transition to the afghan security lead which is ongoing. with the fall of gaddafi, we have maintained a relentless focus on decimating al qaeda leadership. a new strategy to reshape the force to meet the challenges of the 21st century. invest and rebalance to the middle east and asia pacific. and implement the strategy mandated savings $487 billion over 10 years. refocus on saving taxpayer money and improve business practices at the pentagon eliminating $60 billion in overhead over fi

lye coverage of a hearing looking into the defense department's 2013 budget request to congress. defense secretary leon panetta and martin dempsey testify before a senate appropriations s subcommittee. >>> british deputy prime minister and leader nick cleg testifies tomorrow in london. more than 250 witnesses have testified. this week we've heard from former prime ministers gordon brown and john major. live coverage gets under way at 5:00 a.m. eastern on cspan 2. >>> a group of technology experts set down to discuss the history, evolution of the internet. the panetta institute hosted this two hour event last month. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the monterey conference center for the 15th anniversary season of the panetta institute lecture series. 15 years. this year we've been discussing the revolutionary changes that have affected our nation in this new century and reflecting on what the transformation mean for our democracy and for the future. we heard on the long and short perspectives on economic changes that impact our future and we look for inspiration fr

thank you. [ applause ] >> we will hear more about defense spending during a hearing tomorrow looking into the department's 2013 budget request to congress. defense secretary leon panetta and joint chiefs of staff chair general martin dempsey will testify. you can watch live coverage here on c-span3 getting under way at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> also tomorrow, jpmorgan ceo jamie dimon is testifying about his bank's multibillion dollar trading loss and implications it should have on dodd-frank. c-span3 plans live coverage. >>> nancy pelosi began her career in the u.s. house in 1987. >> mr. speaker, as you know, eight years ago this month the soviet union invaded afghanistan. to no one's surprise, the occupation of afghanistan has turned into a bloody war with no victors. a group of human rights lawyers from the united states, britain, swed sweden, documents countless acts of terror perpetrated against the afghan people. >> 25 years later the former speaker was honored on the house floor by republican and democratic leaders. watch those tributes or any part of her career in the house online at the c-span video

the defense department, department of homeland security and experts across the intelligence community have issued chilling warnings about the seriousness of this threat. mr. president, i can't stress enough how concerned people who understand security feel about this. just a few days ago senator mcconnell and i received a letter from a remarkable bipartisan group of former national security officials, democrats and republicans. the group includes six former bush and obama administration officials, michael chertoff, who had been a circuit court judge, a judicial scholar, became head of the department of homeland security during some difficult times we had as a country. paul wolfowitz who has been advising presidents for decades. admiral mike mcconnell, general hayden, that's who signed the letter. i can give a short tkeus certation of -- dissertation of every one of these individuals about what they know about our country. it presented a danger in stark terms, as stark as i can imagine. this is a public letter, mr. president, this is what this one letter says -- quote -- "we carry the

he is not only the number two official in the defense department but his career as a public servant and as a defense intellectual has really been quite distinguished and quite sustained. he served in the first clinton administration as assistant secretary for international security policy, and really a lot of his most influential work has been done even when he's been out of government at the kennedy school and through things like the aspen strategy group and thing like that. he is the very epitome after defense intellectual and thus it's pleasing to see somebody of the egg-headed persuasion rise to the senior management position in the department. so please let's welcome dr. carter. [ applause ] >> thank you, tom, for that introduction. and i didn't see the thing in politico so i don't know -- but i do appreciate the introduction. i appreciate an opportunity to be here at aei. it was almost exactly a year ago today that my former boss, secretary gates, spoke to you on the eve of his departure as secretary of defense. in looking back on his tenure as secretary he chose to highlight two

which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically. >> the same day the defense department put the focus on the slaughter of civilians and not the nation supplies helicopters. >> frankly, the type of airframe is immaterial. they are using helicopter gunship against their own people is intolerable, unacceptable. >> the defense department justified existing deal to buy russian helicopters for afghan airport. >> the mi-17 helicopter from our vantage point is about afghanistan. it's about equipping the afghan air force with what they need to ensure they have a capability from air stand point to defend themselves. >> russian government says it's not violating international law. so far, the international groups including the u.n. and arab league have been ineffective so the slaughter of the syrian civilian continues. >> chris: catherine herridge from the state department. thank you for that. >>> today, senators heard arguments for and against the law of the sea treaty. many business and military support the treaty. it's been around for three decades but the senate has never ratified it. some s

and we in the department of defense and, paul, i'm sure you know this well, have sadly over the last ten years become pioneers in several fields of health care. tbi, pts, prostheses and so forth, and hard won as that expertise has been, it's there, and it's available for everyone else to use as well. and so if you go to the hospitals and you go to the centers of excellence and so forth, be very proud of what we've managed to do to take care of our own wounded warriors, but that's progress that everybody can benefit from. sorry. >> aol defense. good morning, sir. >> hi. >> the army, especially the institutional army, has had a very rough time getting their acquisitions done well over the past 12 to 15 years. given the stakes over the next five years, the reset, replacing the m 113s, et cetera, et cetera, how confident are you that the army has fixed itself and that it will do a good job and what are you doing to ensure that happens? >> well, you are right, and i think everybody in the army and everybody associated with the army acquisition would say that they are disappointed in the p

. >>> the defense department observed gay pride today for the tyson anytime u.s. history. they held a panel discussion who discussed their experience related to the repeal of military don't ask don't tell policy. congress repealed this in 2010 enabling gay nobody serve openly. the repeal took effect last accept. the >>> a rainbow colored orero cookie. you can't actually buy it but they posted this to toe. it has enlisted more than 25,000 comments both for and against gay rights. some question requests they were entering the debate in the first place. >>> and today is moving day for the 22 depth adoptable dogs. they left san jose from washington state. from there they'll go to canada to foster homes. they cross-claim @ san san -- they came from the san jose center. pizza, catalog, and and a whole lot of students. all part of new program that is designed to help local students with college registration. more from the going success event. >> they were here getting help enrolling for classes at san francisco city college. >> it's exciting. it's pretty nervous too. >> alexandri

department of defense. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you to chairman. i appreciate that opportunity to speak with committee members. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today along with my department state college to provide an update on the united states transition from a military to civilian presence in iraq. given irex important strategically in the middle middle east remains profoundly in the united states national interest that iraq emerges a strategic partner with the united states, a sovereign, stable, self-reliant nation and a positive force for moderation and stability in the region. in the time since we last appear before this committee the united states has a bit of its commitments in 2008 u.s.-iraqi security agreement by withdrawing all u.s. forces by the end of december 2011. the department of defense has worked closely with the department of state to help ensure a successful transition to a civilian-led presence in iraq. before during and after the transition dod provided all possible support to set up -- to posture the state